: If they don;t live in caves, why collapse the barbican.
: "Yes instead of fighting to the last we'll
: collapse a building (tower etc.) on us." The only
: practical means to collapsing a barbican is to block
: something, now unless it was a really big barbican,
: big enough to block enitre mounatin passes, then it
: seems logical that it was to block a small entrance,
: ie a cave.
: Now don't blame me for circular reasoning again.
: (especially since the last circular reasoning
: accuasation, along with the propagande accusation were
: totaly inacurate since I wasn't trying to prove they
: lived in caves, or the how they built the barbican,
: but of whether or not the city was captured, so thus I
: didn;t use circualr reasoning and propanganda, I can;t
: see how on earth you could call my post propaganda.)
: Thus the dwarves unless extremely stupid must have been
: blocking something, since the didn't collapse the
: barbican in the heat of battle, it was collapsed when
: they heard that Myrgard had fell. So thus it seems
: likely that they live in caves.
Suggestion:
1) We know how much the Dwarves hate the Ghols.
2) We know that the defenders of Stoneheim were probably hopelessly outnumbered.
3) We know that Ghols don't build fortifications, although they may occasionally take over other people's.
By destroying Stoneheim, the Dwarves kill the survivors of the garrison, probably kill the first wave of Ghol attackers, and ensure that their hated enemies can't occupy and use the stronghold of their ancestors. I would imagine that, though the mountains in and around Stoneheim are absolutely swarming with Ghols, the fortifications of the city are nowhere near as intact as those we saw at Myrgard.
Oh, and btw, there's a bit of flavour text that says something to the effect of the Ghols celebrating Stoneheim's capture with feasts at every full moon. Which rather suggests that they did capture it.
